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awesomearchives · 1 day
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Fuck yeah, open education! Here's a series of videos that start from 0, so you can learn about how manuscripts are described and studied.
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nyxshadowhawk · 26 days
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Amazing Christian mystical art from a medieval manuscript!
@cryptotheism Get a load of the colors on this one! I don’t know which one this is because I didn’t call it up myself (and I think this is one of the ones you needed special permission for, anyway), but it’s incredible.
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yiddishknights · 5 months
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Two knights on horseback rendered in Hebrew micrography in the margins of the Yonah Pentateuch, 13th century.
Source: British Library, Add. MS 21160 fol. 192v and 201v
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finnlongman · 4 months
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I am deeply enjoying the facial expressions on both woman and bird in this marginal drawing.
(Cambridge UL MS Add. 4085)
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burningvelvet · 6 months
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Percy Shelley doodling while helping his wife edit the draft of her first novel, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818):
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The idea for the story was devised in mid-June 1816. The draft shown here was written between August and December 1816, and it was revised until April 1817. The book was published January 1st 1818 when Mary was 20-years-old. She was only 18 when she conceived the story, as her 19th birthday was on August 30th 1816.
Source: The Shelley-Godwin Archive online
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detailstodiefor · 19 days
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There is something so magnificent about the human fascination with the bright mess of the night sky, and the certainty that every one of my ancestors was familiar with the same sight, even if nothing else in our lives looks the same.
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cuties-in-codices · 4 months
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some 15th century occupations: chainmail-maker, bridle-maker, clerk, tailor, spice dealer, butcher, cutler, bird-catcher
from the "hausbuch der mendelschen zwölfbrüderstiftung", vol. 1, nuremberg (bavaria), 1426-1549
source: Nuremberg, Stadtbibliothek, Amb. 317.2°, fol. 10r, 14r, 62r, 67r, 75r, 83v, 95v, and 99r
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othmeralia · 4 months
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Italian Dyer's Notebook
Autograph manuscript, circa 1856-1866
This warped and worn nineteenth-century Italian manuscript appears to be a working manual and color inventory of a wool dyer in mid-nineteenth-century Italy. The handwritten entries are dated between 1856 and 1866, suggesting that the notebook was used and added to over a period of time. The work includes more than 500 numbered and itemized recipes for dyes. Recipes are illustrated with more than 800 wool and fabric samples adhered to the pages. The samples range in colors from shades of brown to vivid fuchsia, turquoise, and mustard. The samples include fabrics of wool, felt, and cotton, as well as raw wool and coils of yarn. Ingredients listed include mud, urine, arsenic, and vitriol. Pages 192-219 contain longer descriptions of dying processes, one attributed to Giacomo Udinese and another to Cesare Bizzi.
Check it out on our digital collections site.
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uwmspeccoll · 10 months
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Typography Tuesday
We return to our facsimile of a 16th-cnetury calligraphic manuscript, Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta, or Model Book of Calligraphy, written in 1561/62 by Georg Bocskay, the Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, and illuminated 30 years later by Flemish painter Joris Hoefnagel for the grandson of Ferdinand I, Emperor Rudolph II. The manuscript was produced by Bocskay in Vienna to demonstrate his technical mastery of the immense range of writing styles known to him. To complement and augment Bocskay's calligraphy, Hoefnagel added fruit, flowers, and insects to nearly every page, composing them so as to enhance the unity and balance of the page’s design. Although the two never met, the manuscript has an uncanny quality of collaboration about it.
Our facsimile was the first facsimile produced from the collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. It was printed in Lausanne, Switzerland by Imprimeries Reunies and published by Christopher Hudson in 1992. 
View another post from Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta,
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nobrashfestivity · 5 days
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Unknown, Mawangdui tomb #3: manuscript on astronomy, of some 6,000 characters recording achievements made in early Western Han dynasty Ch'ang-sha shih (China), around 200 BCE
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gliklofhameln · 5 months
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8th Century Judaeo-Persian letter from Kaifeng, Henan province, China
This document fragment from the British Library is one of the oldest items of Jewish history in Britain. It was discovered by Sir Aurel Stein at Dandan-Uiliq in 1901. The letter is written in Judaeo-Persian, i.e. Persian written in Hebrew script. However since the beginning and end of each line is missing, there is only a limited amount of contextual information to be deduced. Mention of sheep trading and cloth indicates the document’s commercial nature and a reference to the author having written “more than 20 letters” attests perhaps to a thriving trade. There is also an intriguing request for a harp required for instructing a girl how to play.
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professorerudite · 9 months
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In honor of the summer solstice, this is what Stonehenge looked like in 1500's
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Source: https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_28330
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nyxshadowhawk · 1 month
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A selection of images from a sequence depicting the alchemical process, from an early modern manuscript.
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yiddishknights · 4 months
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Menorah rendered in Hebrew micrography, from a 15th century siddur.
Source: Columbia University, MS X893 J725, fol. 411r
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finnlongman · 4 months
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Not a mermaid or a merman but a secret third thing (mermusician)
(Cambridge UL MS Add. 4085)
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upennmanuscripts · 27 days
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Everybody look at your hands!
Diagrams of hands from:
Ms. Codex 1663: For palm reading, f. 122r ff Ms. Codex 1680: For use in chiromancy, f. 77r Ms. Codex 1690: Hand of the Philosopher, p. 193 Ms. Coll. 390 Item 778: Manual and guide for a palm reader Ms. Codex 1248: Guidonian hand, f. 122r
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